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What I do for situations like that (I would assume the short term goal would be to start showing up for that brand when you search for it)  - I'd decide if it's really possible to get on that search term quickly. For the example "Crazy Man" I would deem it to be a longer term project since it's very general and even a kid will type that in. I would go for the "no-space" version for this one For a brand term like "Cheese Media" I would definitely start with the space since nobody really searches for something like that and you'd easily get that "brand" Either way, during the course of your brand name building process (unlinked mentions, links, citations) - I would throw in the alternate version for a certain % of the time. Long term, you'd see your brand to start ranking for that as well. Personally i prefer making up unique names when im starting a new business, it makes the branding/seo part easier lol Hope I helped you out somehow

This is what I thought it was, I just wanted to make sure that what I was thinking was correct.

You have two different materials and two different shapes.  Each of those materials should have different characteristics and each of those shapes should have different characteristics. If I owned this site I might create four pages.... Round Wooden Widgets - Size 1 to 9 Square Wooden Widgets - Size 1 to 9 Round Brass Widgets - Size 1 to 9 Square Brass Widgets - Size 1 to 9 Each of these pages would have substantive content.  For example: why brass round widgets are the best for certain people, the best for certain uses and how they compare with the wooden and the square.   These four pages would have very substantive informative content and offer the featured widgets for sale.  Maybe I would have informative content in the right column and images with purchase buttons in the left. I would attack with pages that are: informative, unique, substantive, well illustrated and transactional.    Do this well and I think you will kick some ass. If you put the most popular sizes in the title tag that will give them nearly as much relevance as separate pages and the substantive content will compete well against sellers who have one size on skimpy content pages. Defeat your competitors' content and get your keywords into kickass title tags.

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hmm then it might be one of following: The algo updates impacted the competitor sites and rewarded them with higher positions for more quality content than your site Their link profile for that keyword is better than yours

I find the guest blogging classifies horrible these days. Like all things SEO they were great for a while and now its so full of people that wouldn't pass Grade 2 English that it's a waste of time. It's just a little too hit and miss. I would simply find some blogs you love that are in a similar niche and probably about the same size in terms of online standing and send out a 'how do you do' email. If you like their blog then you already know they have an agreeable writing style so you're half way there. Either that or hire a content writer (like me!) . Many content writers rates are quite inexpensive, especially if you get say 10 articles for a set price.

Hi Kade, Good question and one that comes up frequently, because so many businesses are just outside the borders of major cities. The simple answer is - Google considers a business as being most relevant to its city of location. So, if you're in Plano, Google views you as a good answer for searches containing the word 'Plano' or for searches from Plano-based devices. Google does not consider you as primarily relevant to Dallas. Some businesses have actually taken the rather drastic step of relocating just to get into those big cities, or have even moved within their city of location to get closer to the city centroid and improve their chances of rankings. Chris Silver Smith recently published a very good piece on this potentials and pitfalls of this approach: http://searchengineland.com/relocation-relocation-relocation-a-new-local-ranking-tactic-135325 So, where does that leave a company like the one your friend owns? If you can't outrank Dallas businesses in the blended-local pack is their anything you can do? The one path many businesses explore taking is to create city landing pages on their websites for their service radius cities. For example, if your friend does a lot of construction work in Dallas, he could have a page on his website showcasing his work there. And, he could back this up with an ongoing stream of blog posts highlighting his work in Dallas. Will this enable him to outrank Dallas-based competitors? It's unlikely, and pretty much out of the question when it comes to his blended local rankings, but he may be able to get some secondary organic rankings for Dallas-related searches, driving some targeted traffic and leads. I would discuss this idea with him, once he understands how Google views his business as being relevant to Plano because of locale. This isn't a dead-end situation, by any means, but it's definitely a challenging one, and calls for much creativity and effort.

Hi kadesmith! This is Megan from the SEOmoz Help Team.  If you want to remove a report that you're not interested in, you can click on the keyword and choose the option to 'stop running weekly'. Also, you can always manually generate reports for any URL and one of your keywords. Simply go to the Report Card tab in the On Page section, and cut and paste or type a new URL into the URL drop box. Then select your keyword from the drop down and select "Grade My Optimization." After that, you can tell the Web App to start tracking that combination in the future by selecting the option to 'run this report weekly', and you should start seeing weekly reports. I hope this helps!  If you have more questions about On-Page reports, you can check out this help resource here:  http://www.seomoz.org/help/on-page-reports Cheers!

The purpose of OSE is to show you links to your site. There is no way to accurately determine which links are organic vs manipulative without visiting the site. DMOZ links would not be considered as manipulative.

These are just notices. As long as things look correct to you (you're not doing a rel canonical to the home page for each of your internal pages) things are good and you can happily ignore that.

Spamming, or doing something really awesome - a quick look at the links themselves and the ratio of new links to linking sites should give you an idea. If it's 2000 solid links from 2000 sites then they have knocked it out of the park else if it's more like 2000 anchored links from 20 sites then they have likely just bought themselves a spell in the penguin cage.

Once you have stepped up your game and you have some money, go to Market Motive and take Avinash's Analytics class. http://www.marketmotive.com/internet-marketing-training-and-certification-signup?top=home&topic=WebAnalytics It's not always about SEO. For my clients, it's about more money in the bank. SEO is only a part of the puzzle.

Basically a "Natural Link" is when someone links to your site for any reason without you having to ask them or pay them to link to you.  They found value in your site and wanted to share with others. It's not a type of link, but how the link was acquired.

The general rule is to have no more than 100 links per page, so you can probably increase this page from an SEO stand-point and still be OK. However, you also want to consider user-experience. Will the page look more tidy or be more functional for the visitor at 25 listings per page or at 50 or a 100? We recently had a similar issue on a site I was working on at http://babynamesdiary.com/baby-names-and-meanings/ - which uses databases for baby name ideas and we opted to go with 25 names per page, but also included a list of name origins at the bottom (which is like category pages) to help both the visitors to the site and also help our SEO. What I find is that the best method is a balance of visitor experience and good SEO (but always place visitor experience first and the rest should naturally follow). If you like this answer, please give us a thumbs up!

Perhaps my problem is I have never been to a pub.

Humble and modest EGOL, but we all know you should be on that list too!